N. Korea Says It Is Holding U.S. Citizen

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Source: Associated Press

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea confirmed Thursday that it has arrested an American man for committing an unspecified crime and is preparing to indict him.

The man, identified by the North's official Korean Central News Agency as Jun Young Su, is the latest U.S. citizen to be detained in the reclusive communist state in recent years.

North Korea informed Washington about the situation and Jun is being given necessary humanitarian conveniences including consular contact with Swedish Embassy officials in Pyongyang, the news agency dispatch said.

Earlier this week, the U.S. State Department called for North Korea to release one of its citizen and said Swedish officials had visited the American. But it gave no further details.

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2011/04/13/world/asia/AP-AS-NKorea-American-Detained.html